Three-and-a-half years ago, I wrote a spoof about how analysis of mood and syntax on Twitter could be used to predict a woman’s likely moment of ovulation.
A year-and-a-half ago, I wrote a piece about how Google was assembling a significant-enough chunk of content creation and distribution, it would have a prediction engine that could intelligently mine for patterns, and maybe even pick stocks. (All that Google lacked was a micro-blog style service, like Twitter.)
And now?
Twitter Mood Predicts The Stock Market
An analysis of almost 10 million tweets from 2008 shows how they can be used to predict stock market movements up to 6 days in advance.
Give it a read. Actually, give them all a read.
I made some predictions about predictions, that have almost come to pass | http://ike4.me/ospe